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Celebrating the end of Oxventure Presents: Blades in the Dark.
Treasuries the friends we made, sometimes literally, along the way.
It hit me that all those WMMs are just, dead to the world now. Also I’m so glad we got one last bit with Bug and Mumbles because I love and adore them and I’m glad Kasimir has decided theyre his kids now.
It’s okay, it was all just preparation
for the Wonderful MAGICAL Men
[id: screenshots of tiktok captions. the images say, “but the only reason we still love princess diana is because she did not have the time to disappoint us.”]
begging queer kids to read up on princess diana’s involvement with the community. yes, she was a rich, pretty monarch. yes, she died young.
but the reason why queer people love her is because she used her privilege during the aids crisis to advocate for sick queer men, when very few others would - much less someone of her status.
diana spent years advocating for the health and care of queer people with hiv/aids. in 1987, at the height of the epidemic, she opened the first specialist clinic dedicated to treating aids patients (the first clinic of it’s kind in the uk).
she also fought public hysteria by hugging and shaking bare hands with aids patients, at a time when aids was thought to be spread by skin to skin contact. not only that, she visited patients in the clinic regularly and even comforted them through their sickness.
and when queen elizabeth told her to try focusing on “something more pleasant”?
diana ignored her and kept fighting.
and this is only her work towards the aids crisis. she publicly called out the royal family, brought attention to numerous world issues, and was known as an advocate for empathy and kindness. she’s known and loved as the people’s princess for good reason
You might ask yourself, why I often post dice in a rainbow pattern...well....I just think rainbows are neat :)
These are all sets I make in the "Darkness" style.
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Research has shown that pleasure affects nutrient absorption. In a 1970s study of Swedish and Thai women, it was found that when the Thai women were eating their own (preferred) cuisine, they absorbed about 50% more iron from the meal than they did from eating the unfamiliar Swedish food. And the same was true in the reverse for the Swedish women. When both groups were split internally and one group given a paste made from the exact same meal and the other was given the meal itself, those eating the paste absorbed 70% less iron than those eating the food in its normal state.
Pleasure affects our metabolic pathways; it’s a facet of the complex gut-brain connection. If you’re eating foods you don’t like because you think it’s healthy, it’s not actually doing your body much good (it’s also unsustainable, we’re pleasure-seeking creatures). Eat food you enjoy, it’s a win-win.
what
no seriously
what?
ETA: I’ve been looking for the study, and the closest I got was this: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1032.6606&rep=rep1&type=pdf
which is not quite that but has many of the same elements. The link in the OP is to a NY Times op ed, which is suspicious to me. The research above is not looking at what the op ed is talking about–it is primarily focused on what it takes to up the iron absorption from Thai food in an area with endemic low iron, if I’m reading it correctly, and is not looking at whether “pleasure” increases food absorption. Literally everything I’m reading points back to either the op ed or uses the same same vague wording “Research in the 1970′s” in a way that makes me think there’s a bit of a pseudoscience circle jerk going on here.
My biggest suspicion is raised at this underlying assumption that “Thai women don’t enjoy Swedish food, Swedish women don’t enjoy Thai food.’ Without some subjective evaluation of the enjoyment of each meal, that’s a kind of spurious leap to make, I say as a half-Ashkenazi Jew/half WASP of some Scandinavian descent who fucking adores Thai food. Pinning everything on “enjoyment” and using pureed food as a control is a little spurious when we already know that rice flour impedes iron absorption more than whole rice does, for example. It might just as easily be “Pureed food requires no chewing, and the failure to sufficiently mix amylase and other dietary enzymes through the chewing process impedes iron absorption.”
It’s exactly the kind of spurious flimflam that so-called science news writers seem to generate every chance they get, mixed in with a healthy dose of pure 70′s woo-woo and patronizing racism so typical of the time.
I’m not saying that it doesn’t make sense to enjoy food. Of course we should enjoy our food. But there’s so much fuckery here that I would not base literally anything on it.
The whole point of the research was to see what the best practices were to get iron levels up in Thailand, not to say, “Oh, look, Thai people magically absorb food better if they like it.”
Especially high on my bullshit meter is the idea that you can’t absorb something if you don’t enjoy the food it’s in. I say that as someone who MUST get a lot of supplemental nutrients in pill form, and I have lab work showing that said supplements, completely void of gustatory delight, actually do help bring my levels up. Even if this was true for iron… you absolutely cannot just “guess” that that applies to every other nutrient. I get zero joy from popping magnesium pills, but they sure do help stop my asthma in a clinically significant way.
Do I have to back up my words with research? The burden of proof is on the scientific claim. If this was all that, most likely someone would have done research in the meantime.
Every computer needs a cleaning keyboard mode where the keys are inactive while you wipe them down
Turn off the computer
unplug the keyboard
Wallow in filth
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The way its cropped is perfect
[Image ID: Screenshot of a tweet from rudy betrayed @rudy_betrayed, reading as follows.
“what if your first name was holden and your last name was berries and you’d be like ‘i’m holden berries’ and everyone would think you’re holding berries lmaoooo”
Just barely visible at the bottom of the screenshot, the bottom of the letters partially cutoff, is a reply from a twitter user by the name of Holden Cox @holdencocks.
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sweet dreams are made of this
surprised: no-one about the fact that I really *really* enjoyed the new sandman tv-series
“there is a lion in my living room” - clementine von radics // ricky “jupe” park in nope (2022) dir. jordan peele
every episode of malevolent makes me feel like this
“JESUS FUCKING CHRIST ARTHUR, LISTEN –”
@Fanfic writers:
My friend send me this link, is a series on a profile on Ao3 (tumblr) that has different tutorials to insert things to fanfics via html code, I thought I would share bc it’s really cool
Lists of tutorials:
This is a tutorial/live example on how to make large images fit on mobile browsers but remain normal size on desktop browsers.
This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic the look of letters, fliers, and stationery (as well as other forms of written media) without using images. For all your epistolary fic needs.
This is a tutorial/live example on how to create a "Choose Your Own Adventure" fic. While this has been explained before (see here), this particular tutorial shows you how to use a work skin to hide the next parts from the reader until they click through to get to them.
This is a live example of how an author can create linked footnotes in their work with only a little bit of HTML and no workskins required. This is best viewed by clicking "Entire Work". While I've included the actual coding in bold and italic once you click "Hide Creator's Style", there's a more detailed explanation here.
This a tutorial/live example on how to have text change or appear once a cursor is hovering over it. Helpful for pop-up spoilers, language translations, quick author's notes, etc.
Anonymous on tumblr: do you have a skin that would mimic the author’s notes and review/kudos buttons section from the end of a fic? the desired effect being that the fic could go on after the “end” of the fic, so after the author’s notes and review/kudos buttons
Here's a tutorial/live example to do just that, with some of the buttons actually functioning. I'll explain more inside!
This is a tutorial/live example on how to align images to the left or right of the screen and have text wrap around them.
This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic email windows on AO3 without the need to use images.
This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic iOS text messages on AO3 without the need to use images. There's also a chapter on how to have emojis displayed on AO3 as well.
Bored with the default page dividers? This is a tutorial/live example on how customize your page dividers with no images needed (though I do show you how you could use images if you wanted to do such a thing).
This is a live example how to make invisible text that can only be seen by highlighting the text. Tutorial is included in text, and you can always leave comments about questions you may have.
MOBILE USERS: Sadly, this probably won't work for you, since highlighting in a mobile browser is different than web. I've tried correcting this, but have yet to find a solution.
Original coding and design is from layouttest. I make no claims for it, just tweaked it so it will work on AO3.
This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of lined notebook paper in their work. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.
This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of sticky notes (aka Post-Its) in their fic. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.
This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of Deadpool's thinking boxes in their fic. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.
This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of a newspaper article in their work. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.
i love and respect that post or tweet or whatever it was about how every mountain goats song is like whirring of the ac in a warehouse while john goes "the dog was. brown" but i do think it applies more to older songs. nowadays any mountain goats song is like [sexy saxophone riff] john darnielle sounding really excited: I HAVE A FIVE STEP PLAN FOR MAULING YOU TO DEATH [bass lick] WHEN THE COPS COME TO MY DOOR I'LL KILL THEM TOO [more saxophone]
